CIRES post doc Pragallva Barpanda joined PSL's Atmosphere Ocean Processes team in September 2020 to work with George Kiladis, Stefan Tulich and Juliana Dias. Her main research focuses on better understanding the atmospheric interaction between tropics and extratropics in sub-seasonal timescale. In the future, she also wants to understand how climate change affects the tropical-extratropical interaction. After pursuing a Master’s degree in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, Pragallva received her PhD in atmospheric dynamics from the University of Chicago in 2020. Her PhD research focused on the dynamics of extratropical storm tracks in various timescales.